H.W. Wilson Announces Short Story Index Retrospective: 1915-1983
New WilsonWeb Reference Offers Valuable Data Found in No Other
Single Source
New York, New York, April 4, 2008
H.W. Wilson today announced
Short Story Index
Retrospective: 1915-1983, a unique new tool to help users
find short stories from among over 150,000 published in the U.S.,
England and Canada from the 1830s to the 1980s. For the reader
seeking works by a favorite author, the teacher looking for the
quintessential example of a particular genre, the student
researching the career of a literary figure, or other inquiry in
literature, politics, sociology, ethnic studies, media studies,
history and beyond, here's fast searching of over 150 years of
literature.
Access by author, title, publication--as well as
topics, themes, locales, genre, and people (individuals,
ethnicities, or professions)--gives Short Story Index
Retrospective versatility that's valuable well beyond literary
research.
The database also boasts the unique appeal of
revitalizing a library's investment in serials and anthologies, by
bringing precise electronic searching to a wealth of short fiction
that would be otherwise just "hidden away." Sources include 350
acclaimed periodicals and collections of short stories--from the
golden age of short fiction in magazines through the most celebrated
contemporary literary publications.
Entries feature all the bibliographic information
your patrons need to find the actual story, plus convenient links to
other works by the author and other stories in the source
collection. WilsonWeb's library holdings indicator (linked to the
library's OPAC) lets users know if they'll find cited publications
on the shelves, and WilsonLink OpenURL technology links to full-text
stories on any of the library's other OpenURL-compliant reference
sources, including free web sites.
Short Story Index Retrospective brings
together decades of content from Wilson's Short Story Index,
lauded as "highly recommended to libraries of all types" by
American Reference Books Annual. The databases search seamlessly
in combination, offering access to more than 170 years of data in
total. The new database is one of 16 now in the Wilson Retrospective
Collection, which also includes indexes in art, applied science,
social science, education, biography, business, law, library and
information science, and the humanities. Other retrospective
databases covering literature include Book Review Digest
Retrospective, Humanities Index Retrospective, Readers' Guide
Retrospective, and the upcoming Essay & General Literature
Index Retrospective.
More about
Short Story Index
Retrospective. Free 30-day trials are
available.
About H.W. Wilson
Since 1898, independent publisher H.W. Wilson has provided
researchers with references produced with unmatched editorial
integrity. More than 60 H.W. Wilson databases--indexes, abstracts,
full text resources, plus the acclaimed Retrospective
Collection--meet the research needs of customers around the globe.
From the long-popular
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature to today's
widely-praised Biography
Reference Bank, H.W. Wilson products are created for
librarians, by librarians. Over 150 Wilson editorial staff members
with MLS or MLIS degrees--multi-lingual trained librarians and
subject specialists--build the Wilson references each day.
Contact:
Roseward Sky
Phone (800)
367-6770, x2272
Email:
rsky@hwwilson.com
Frank Daly
Phone: (800) 367-6770, x2312
Email: fdaly@hwwilson.com
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